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  • The Discontent of Mary Wenger by Robert Tucker

    by Robert M Tucker

    Emotionally torn between the conflicting historical social forces of feminism and the traditional roles of women in post-World War II society, Mary Wenger struggles with a deep sense of despair. Spanning the continent during the decades of the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s to the turn of the century, her compulsive lifelong odyssey in search of an acceptable house in which to realize her personal and economic goals throws her out of balance with her family. A master wordsmith tells... more

  • DNA, or The Book of Brad

    by Monica Bauer
    Rose Pettigrew is a striking and accomplished young Black lawyer in the middle of a hot love affair with Paula Bernstein, one of the most successful heart surgeons in Los Angeles She has one thing missing in her life; she needs to find her family. When her adoptive mother slides into the final stages of Alzheimer’s, she finally feels free to search for her birth parents. Her hands shake as she opens the email from “DNA and Me” that gives her a chance to find them. Her DNA results show one very c... more

  • I'm The Same

    by James Ungurait

    In the lush forests of Oregon, Kodak's past collides with his future when he lands a prestigious writing fellowship far away from the haunting memories of his Southern roots. At a gala, he is introduced to Quinn, heir of the family backing the program. Their connection ignites, but as Kodak grapples with tragedy and prejudice swirling around his biracial heritage, a cataclysmic earthquake challenges everything they've built.

    Amidst the chaos of a deadly tsunami, Kodak and Quinn ... more

  • Voices Whisper

    by Linda Lee Graham

    When the orphaned Liam Brock first set foot in Philadelphia, he was brimming with aspirations. Now, seven years later, he faces a startling sensation of loss as his constant companions, David and Elisabeth, start a family of their own and begin a life apart.

    Aimless for the first time in his life, Liam forgoes opportunities to pursue his passion for law and continues dallying with a variety of Philadelphia's young women, including the insatiable and soulless Victoria Billings, ... more

  • Still, the Sky

    by Tom Pearson

    Still, the Sky is a speculative mythology rendered through poetry and art that combines the tales of Icarus and the Minotaur and creates for them a shared coming-of-age through a correspondence of written fragments, artifacts, ecofacts, and ephemera. The resulting narrative becomes a labyrinth of fragmented memories, confessions, and tributes—and these mix throughout as fever dreams and meditations on innocence and experience, flight and failure, love and loss.

  • Curb Children

    by Carlos & Javier Avitia-Velazquez

    “Once a punk, always a punk; Expect nothing, cherish everything.” Los Angeles native David Leandro "Leo" Rial-Alvarez takes these mantras to heart. But what do they really mean to an eighteen-year-old Latino Millennial dealing with the suicide of his close friend Aqua, a trainhopper girl, at his going-away party on the morning of his flight to college in New York City? Especially when he left behind Astair, his childhood love, and all his other California friends in the ... more

  • Daughter of the Boricua

    by Olivia Castillo
    Daughter of the Boricua continues the saga of the award winning book, Song of the Boricua, and follows the story of Puerto Rico, told through the lives of three generations of women. Liani; a Taino torn between her loyalty to her people, and her love for a Spanish officer. Isabella; direct descendent of Aztec princess Isabella Moctezuma, cursed as her grandmother was. Josephine; daughter of Isabella, afraid to love, but finding herself caught between love or career. Are they cursed? ... more

  • Myself to blame?

    by DEEPAK DUBEY
    The collection is a crude satire on blatant and sexist traditions, bourgeois morality, an ideology of patriarchy and gendered social discrimination; deemed to answer why Apathy gets its hands in paving the way for the development of existentialism agony that leads to a person to suicide?

  • Landscape of a Marriage

    by Gail Ward Olmsted
    New York, 1858: Mary, a young widow with three children, agrees to marry her brother-in-law Frederick Law Olmsted, who is acting on his late brother’s deathbed plea to "not let Mary suffer”. But she craves more than a marriage of convenience and sets out to win her husband’s love. Beginning with Central Park in New York City, Mary joins Fred on his quest to create a 'beating green heart' in the center of every urban space. Over the next 40 years, Fred is inspired to create dozens of city parks... more

  • I Own This Town: The Mayor Bert Xanadu Xanthology

    by Gerry Flahive
    It’s always 1973 in Bert Xanadu’s Toronto. As its longest-serving and longest-suffering mayor, he presides over a city as fantastical as a drip-dry shirt, and a cinema --- the Imperial Six --- as glamorous and subdivided as Ethel Merman’s last will and testament. He does it with panache, impatience and dyspepsia, but who’s counting? From the thousands of scintillatingly coherent pronouncements he has made, these are truly the most available! “@MOVIEMAYOR makes me genuinely laugh out loud.” -... more

  • Victor in Trouble

    by Alex Finley
    When case officer Victor Caro arrives in Rome for his retirement tour, he and his family anticipate a three-year joy ride filled with good food, even better wine, and all the cultural wonders the Eternal City has to offer. But when Russia’s intelligence services help install a new American president, Victor finds himself in a national security nightmare. He and his team must race from Rome to Moscow to Washington, fending off an American senator clamoring to ride a Russian bear and a Russian hon... more

  • Festival

    by Chris Tomasini
    While a student at the University of Toronto, Peter spends a summer working in England, at a hotel in Knightsbridge. Covent Gardens, Greenwich Park, the Thames itself, all become part of his life, as do coworkers who, like Peter, are mostly passing through London. When he returns to Toronto, the people he knew in London echo within him, especially Anne, who more than anyone, slipped behind his defenses and challenged him to hold onto life as though it meant something. Set in 1990s London and Tor... more

  • A Heart Lies Within Us

    by Steven LaBree
    Lucas Colby raised on lies and deception, discovers his heart has deceived him. After killing the man that created his misfortune, he leaves town and becomes successful despite his past. Lucas fails to learn his lesson and loses everything, along with his only true love. Does he surrender his heart, accept the imperfections of life and truth, and discover that giving of yourself entirely to another uncovers true love? Find out what happens in this epic love story of human frailty, life, and forg... more

  • Close Your Eyes: A Fairy Tale

    by Chris Tomasini
    Set in early 1400s Europe, Close Your Eyes is a sincere, yet light-hearted and lustful, ode to love. As Samuel, the court jester, struggles to describe why his friends, Agnieszka the cook, and Tycho the story-teller, fled the King of Gora's service, he learns that love was the beating heart behind everything that happened in the castle. He learns as well that more ghosts than he knew of walked the midnight halls, and that the spirit of Jeanne d'Arc haunted his friend, and once slid into bed wit... more

  • Make America Beautiful Again

    by Bo Bancroft
    Family loyalty and trusted friendships fight for survival when they battle with terrorists, law enforcement, political finagling, and a local militia in this taut satirical romp through Georgia. Suspected terrorists attack with a pre-dawn bomb spree, baffling law enforcement as the only targets are towering billboards lining the interstates. The laundry list of culprits include eco-terrorists, a notorious drug cartel, and disgruntled outdoor advertising employees. With Georgians on edge, p... more

  • The Janitor: or, dostoevsky in america

    by Mark Beyer
    At 16, Ernest Wain has a plan to murder his classmates, but a week before his Kill-Day Hour, three other boys let loose with their own murder spree, only to be killed themselves during the mayhem by Ernest, looking for revenge for missing his chance at murder glory. Ernest becomes the Town Hero for saving so many lives. Twenty-five years later, Ernest Wain is working as a janitor at McCormick University, and one day his past comes back to haunt him.
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